Popular culture probably does more than formal science education to shape most people’s understanding of science and scientists. It is more pervasive, more eyecatching, and (with rare exceptions) more memorable. No genetics textbook can hope to compete with Jurassic Park, and no lecture on biophysics can match the sight of Dr Frankenstein pulling lightning down from the stormy sky to animate hi...

Depictions of scientific development in popular media carry significant influence over the way that the public envisions science as a process and as an institution. One such popular depiction of science is the “Tech Tree,” a common game mechanic in strategy videogames. This mechanic is often problematic, as in its most common form, the tech tree depicts a technologically deterministic view of s...

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Abstract In this study we analyze the applicability of specific machine learning algorithms to task detecting sentences containing argumentation in Russian text. We employ a collection scientific and popular science texts with manually annotated evaluate quality identifying argumentative terms precision, recall, F -measure. The experiment involves three algorithms: MNB, SVM, MLP. bag words mode...